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We still get them as visitors to Love Field; and it is so nice to hear and see four-prop, smoke spewing beauties like these.
One time I was eating lunch in the parking lot; and one was sitting on the test pad doing engine runups and other things; a fairly routine sight. After it had sat there awhile there was a loud noise; I turned to see what looked like an EC-135 buzzing down the runway centerline gear up just a few feet off the ground. It flew away, and the Orion taxied back to the hanger to refuel; it must have been a planned meet of some kind.
Squint your eyes just a little, and they remind me not just of the Electra, but of any of the classic propliners of the 1950s.
-James
Here's a pic I took of one at the Memphis airshow last year.
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when i saw the thread's title, i was curious why there was a thread about my wife here in news hawks.
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